Introduction to Abaqus

Lesson 1: 
Overview of Abaqus

A high level overview of Abaqus/CAE, the Abaqus/Standard and Abaqus/Explicit solvers. Will cover how to interface with Abaqus/CAE and build a linear static model.

Lesson 2: 
Working with Geometry (Part 1)

Learn about the Part Module in Abaqus/CAE. How to create native part geometry using the Part Module Tools.

Lesson 3: 
Working with Geometry (Part 2)

Learn how to import and repair geometry in the Part Module. Learn more about import and work with an Orphan Meshes and how to create geometry from an Orphan Mesh.

Lesson 4: 
Material and Section Properties

Learn about the Property Module in Abaqus/CAE. Learn how to create materials for linear elastic, elastic-plastic, and hyperelastic/hyperfoam properties and how to create and assign section properties. 

Lesson 5: 
Assemblies in Abaqus

Learn about the Assembly Module in Abaqus/CAE. How to position instances within an assembly and use other operations to modify the assembly. Learn about Subassemblies, Sets, Surfaces, and Display groups. 

Lesson 6: 
Steps, Output, Loads, and Boundary Conditions

Learn about the Step and Load Modules in Abaqus/CAE. How to create and apply loads and boundary conditions and how to request output from models. 

Lesson 7: 
Meshing Imported and Native Geometry

Learn about the Mesh Module in Abaqus/CAE. What types of elements are available and when they should be used. See how to seed, generate, and validate a mesh. Advanced meshing tools including Virtual topology, bottom-up meshing, mesh compatibility, and mesh convergence.

Lesson 8: 
Job Management and Results Visualization

Learn about the Job and Visualization Modules in Abaqus/CAE. How to create a job, monitor the progress of an analysis, and view and interpret the results.

Lesson 9: 
Linear and Nonlinear Problems

Learn about the main sources of nonlinearities, why nonlinear problems can be challenging to solve, and how they are handled by the solver. 

Lesson 10: 
Analysis Procedures (Part 1)

Learn about the static, general analysis procedure and finding a converged solution for this analysis type. 

Lesson 11: 
Analysis Procedures (Part 2)

Learn about the various Linear Perturbation analysis procedures. Including Static, Buckle and Frequency. . Review load cases and multi-step analysis. 

Lesson 12: 
Analysis Procedures (Part 3)

Learn about what features are present to make a problem dynamic. The difference between the implicit and explicit time integration will be highlighted, then the dynamic explicit analysis procedure will be covered in detail. Focus on how to accelerate an explicit analysis and troubleshooting analyses.

Lesson 13: 
Analysis Continuation Techniques

Learn about Analysis continuation techniques, focusing on how to perform a restart analysis. 

Lesson 14: 
Constraints and Connections

Learn about the static, general analysis procedure and finding a converged solution for this analysis type. 

Lesson 15: 
Contact

Continuation of the Interaction Module in Abaqus/CAE. Introduction to including contact between parts. Focus on contact formulation and controls and the differences between available contact formulations.